Trainee Solicitor Admission 2025

Welcome to the 2025 Admissions page

The process of applying to the Roll of Solicitors in Northern Ireland ("the Roll"), for those trainee solicitors who commenced in 2023, will open at 9am (BST) on Friday 5th September 2025. We will write to you via email on that date with a link to the online form.

In the meantime, it is advisable that you review and prepare your paperwork so as to ensure as speedy an admissions process as possible. You may also wish to avail of the advance fee payment process so as to avoid any delays come September.

On this page you will find:

• Details on Advance Fee Payment
• Advice on the Affidavits
• 2025 Admission Pack download

If you require assistance at any stage, please email the Society at admissions@lawsoc-ni.org.

Advance Fee Payment

There is a £50 admission fee per application for admission to the Roll. Payment of this fee is required before your application can progress.

If you wish to make payment of this fee in advance of the admission cycle opening in September, you may avail of the online card payment form HERE.

If your employer is paying the fee on your behalf, please share the payment form link with the member of staff responsible. Please note we cannot issue invoices for this fee. The payee will receive a receipt via email once payment is made - if applicable, you may use this to claim reimbursement from your employer.

You should refer to your most recent email from the Society for your Trainee ID and include this on the form so we can connect your payment with your admission application.

Please also refer to the Payment Guide included in the Admission Pack, available for download below, for full details.

Affidavits

As part of your admission application, you will be required to upload a number of sworn affidavits, as follows: 

• Affidavit of Solicitor:

  Each Master under whom you have served as a trainee solicitor must complete this affidavit. If you have had more than one Master, each one must complete a separate affidavit. They cannot be combined into one document.

• Affidavit of Trainee:

  This document is completed by you. It is for those trainee solicitors who have not transferred their Master.

• Affidavit of Apprentice (Multiple Masters):

  This document is for the use of trainee solicitors who have held more than one Master during their training. Using this template will avoid the time and cost of having multiple affidavits completed and sworn.

You may download the Affidavit templates as part of the Admission Pack below. You may prepare the documents but please note that they should not be sworn or dated in advance of the last date of your Indentures. 

IMPORTANT NOTE: Your affidavits should only be dated and sworn on or after 5th September 2025.

Please be reminded that you should NOT, further to Arts. 4 and 19 of the Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, refer to yourself as a solicitor, for example on social media or in your email signature, until you have been formally admitted to the Roll of Solicitors and received your Roll number. You may continue to use the term "Trainee Solicitor” until this time.

Any queries in respect to admission should be directed to the Admissions Officer at admissions@lawsoc-ni.org.